Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1988, 6:17 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Madison County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1988, 6:17 AM EDT (10:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1988, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, FL, Madison County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Apalachicola Mun, FL (KAQQ), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1054 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.